Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Naperville, IL

LoganBritton is a data integration and analytics consultancy headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, with roots that go back to 1977. The firm works with organizations that need to turn scattered, high-volume data into reliable reporting and decision support.

It frames its work around what it calls data confidence, which means building a sound foundation so that business users can trust the numbers behind their decisions. Its engagements typically cover the full arc of a project, from early strategy and assessment through design and hands-on delivery.

Business Intelligence and analytics services

On the BI side, the company helps clients understand performance through a mix of reporting and data science work. Its offerings include:

• Dashboard design and operational BI
• Report production and analytical processing
• Statistical analysis and advanced analytics
• Warehouse roadmaps, assessments and design, including logical, physical and semantic models
• Database administration and platform-specific tuning for better performance
• ETL and ELT development, data migration, master data management and data quality
• Security work such as masking, test data management, archiving and static or dynamic encryption

Beyond traditional warehousing, LoganBritton supports cloud modernization and big data initiatives. As a Snowflake services partner, it offers migration, monitoring and ongoing managed services for that platform. It also builds data lakes, handles social, sensor and unstructured data, and helps clients move ETL workloads onto big data environments.

The team has experience with Hadoop, Cloudera, MapR, Hive and Spark, and the firm notes a partnership with IBM around BigInsights. A separate application development practice covers eCommerce, automation, health care and finance projects.

Technology expertise and partnerships

The company has experience across the BI stack. For reporting and analytics it works with Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, SAS and R. Its database background includes Teradata, Oracle, DB2, Netezza and SQL Server, and its integration work draws on Informatica, DataStage and Ab Initio.

LoganBritton describes itself as an authorized reseller and value-added partner for several of these vendors, including Informatica, Teradata, SAP BusinessObjects and MicroStrategy. Clients can therefore source licenses and implementation from one provider. Its Informatica practice centers on the Intelligent Data Platform, which it uses to integrate, govern, cleanse and secure data across on-premise, cloud and big data environments.

Industries, background and leadership

The firm reports client work across a wide range of sectors. Examples cited on its site include health care and pharmaceutical organizations such as Merck, Pfizer and Express Scripts. It also lists public sector bodies, including several state governments, the U.S. Postal Service and the American Red Cross.

Other examples are transportation and distribution companies like UPS and Grainger, manufacturers such as John Deere, Boeing and Ford, and insurers including Allstate, Aetna and Nationwide. According to the company, Forrester and other rating agencies have listed it among the top BI systems integrators serving mid-tier markets. It reports designing warehousing and BI solutions for clients since the 1990s.

LoganBritton is led by President and CEO Yash Gupta, who brings more than 35 years of experience in management, consulting, software engineering and data warehouse development. He previously founded two IT ventures. He promotes a culture that values teamwork, candid communication, employee empowerment and growth. For buyers comparing BI partners, the firm offers long tenure, broad coverage of tools, and the ability to handle work from strategy through delivery.